The law, lawyers, and the court.

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• Uncivil Liberties Why won't the Bush administration obey the law?
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 21, 2005
  
• Clinton's Guantanamo How the Democratic president set the stage for a land without law.
  Brandt Goldstein Dec. 21, 2005
  
• The Secrets They Keep How telling the president what he'd like to hear can be good for your career.
  Bruce Ackerman Dec. 20, 2005
  
• Hold the Line The Texas redistricting case is not a winner for Democrats.
  Richard L. Hasen Dec. 19, 2005
  
• The Get-Out-of-Torture-Free Card Why is Congress banning torture but allowing the use of torture testimony?
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 15, 2005
  
• Judgment Day Arnold's star turn as a California Supreme Court justice.
  Judy Coleman Dec. 15, 2005
  
• Mexican Standoff The complex—and imbalanced—legalities of cross-border justice.
  Noah Leavitt Dec. 14, 2005
  
• Billable Horrors A Slate reader contest for wicked lawyers.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 13, 2005
  
• Bait and Snitch The high cost of snitching for law enforcement.
  Alexandra Natapoff Dec. 12, 2005
  
• The Letterman Justice John Roberts is too savvy to keep cameras out of court forever.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 8, 2005
  
• Tortured Rationale Does Congress really want to fight the war on terror with false confessions?
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 7, 2005
  
• Getting to Yes Why Alito needs to talk to us about the war on terror.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 5, 2005
  
• Tactical Withdrawal? The easy way out for the Supreme Court on "don't ask, don't tell."
  Ariela R. Dubler Dec. 5, 2005
  
• Shoot To Kill Alito's blank check for cops.
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 2, 2005
  
• Innocents Lost Who needs David Gale when you have Ruben Cantu?
  Dan Markel Nov. 29, 2005
  
• The Formerly Great Writ Goodbye, habeas corpus. Hello, executive detention.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 28, 2005
  
• Public Enemy No. 43,527 The government throws back another small fish.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 23, 2005
  
• Don't Tell, Ask Bob Woodward had no duty to disclose anything.
  David Feige Nov. 23, 2005
  
• God Help Him Alito gets religion.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 22, 2005
  
• Bring It On Why are conservatives chickening out of their big national conversation on judges?
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 17, 2005
  
• Let My People Roe Slate readers poll on discussions of Roe v. Wade.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 15, 2005
  
• Three-Quarter Truths The sloppy mischaracterizations of Alito's abortion decisions.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Senate Demerit Lindsey Graham gets the law of detention wrong.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Who They Are The double standard that underlies our torture policies.
  David Cole Nov. 11, 2005
  
• No Smoke, No Fire Alito, the hard-ass.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 10, 2005
  
• Fire Sale How the gun industry bought itself immunity from the rule of law.
  David Kairys Nov. 7, 2005
  
• The Dangling Conversation The one-sided "debate" about judges.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 4, 2005
  
• Hard Read Sam Alito, Mystery Man.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 4, 2005
  
• The Best Defense Prosecutors are from Neptune, defense attorneys are from Pluto.
  Rod Smolla Nov. 2, 2005
  
• Alito or Scalito? If you're a liberal, you'd prefer Scalia.
  Robert Gordon Nov. 1, 2005
  
• Samuel Alito Slate on the Supreme Court nominee.
  Nov. 1, 2005
  
• Rock and Roe Alito's unequivocal abortion decisions.
  Richard Schragger Nov. 1, 2005
  
• Trick and Treat Sammy Alito is the whole bag of goodies.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Alito v. O'Connor How the nominee tried to restrict Roe.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Hear Me, Hear Me The case of the year that the Supreme Court may duck.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 27, 2005
  
• Code Blue What the Miers withdrawal means for abortion code-speak.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 27, 2005
  
• Harriet Miers Slate on the unsuccessful Supreme Court nominee.
  Oct. 27, 2005
  
• Vote for Harriet!!!! The dubious professional distinctions of Harriet Miers.
  Mark Obbie Oct. 25, 2005
  
• Stand Down Miers signals to the right, uselessly.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 20, 2005
  
• Promissory Notes How election-by-questionnaire is threatening independent judges.
  Bert Brandenburg Oct. 19, 2005
  
• Blank Slate A Slate reader poll.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 19, 2005
  
• The Many Faces of Harriet Miers supports, opposes, and is neutral on Roe, all within 24 hours!
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 18, 2005
  
• Leggo My Ego Google Print and the other culture war.
  Tim Wu Oct. 17, 2005
  
• Harriet's Man The Texas judge who is vouching for Miers on Roe.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 7, 2005
  
• Miers, Miers on the Wall Harriet Miers as the human Rorschach test.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 7, 2005
  
• Let-Down Lady Harriet Miers isn't just no John Roberts. She's no Sandra Day O'Connor.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 3, 2005
  
• The Second-String Supreme Court Shortlist The judges the White House just started talking about.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 30, 2005
  
• Pick a Chick Why we need more women on the Supreme Court.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 29, 2005
  
• Confirmation Report The way to a man's heart ...
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 22, 2005
  
• Military Injustice Strike two for the Guantanamo trials.
  David Glazier Sept. 21, 2005
  
• Rethinking Originalism Original intent for liberals (and for conservatives and moderates, too).
  Akhil Reed Amar Sept. 21, 2005
  
• Who's Next? Supreme Court scuttlebutt.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 20, 2005
  
• More Fun Than the Emmys Winners of the Roberts-Takes-the-Fifth Reader Contest.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 20, 2005
  
• Moments of Truth What John Roberts really thinks.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 15, 2005
  
• Confirmation Report Getting to "law-plus."
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Take That, Nino Breyer dukes it out with Scalia.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 12, 2005
  
• Going Courting How same-sex marriage opponents came to love the courts.
  Robert Justin Lipkin Sept. 9, 2005
  
• Diversity Jurisdiction Do we really need a woman or minority to fill O'Connor's shoes?
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 8, 2005
  
• The Mourning After John Roberts grieves for his mentor.
  Cliff Sloan Sept. 7, 2005
  
• The Real World Why judicial philosophies matter.
  Richard Schragger Sept. 7, 2005
  
• John G. Roberts Jr. Slate on Bush's nominee for chief justice.
  Sept. 6, 2005
  
• Double Trouble Now what happens to the court?
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 4, 2005
  
• Tennis and Top Buttons Remembering William H. Rehnquist.
  Richard W. Garnett Sept. 4, 2005
  
• History's Justice What Rehnquist didn't do.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 4, 2005
  
• William H. Rehnquist Slate on the Chief Justice's career and legacy.
  Sept. 4, 2005
  
• Humble Fie Why does John Roberts hate courts so much?
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 2, 2005
  
• Peering Through the Merck Deconstructing the strategy choices facing the Vioxx litigants.
  Cullen Seltzer Aug. 30, 2005
  
• Alive and Kicking Why no one truly believes in a dead Constitution.
  Jack M. Balkin Aug. 29, 2005
  
• Strictly Speaking Slate readers pull the plug on the living Constitution.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 26, 2005
  
• It's a-Living Reader responses to the living Constitution.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 25, 2005
  
• Reasons To Go On Living Does anyone believe in a "living Constitution" anymore?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 23, 2005
  
• John Roberts' Woman Problem The humorless feminists strike again.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 19, 2005
  
• Improper Advances Talking dream jobs with the judge out of court.
  Stephen Gillers Aug. 17, 2005
  
• The Manchurian Candidate? Liberal love for John Roberts.
  Emily Bazelon Aug. 16, 2005
  
• Goody Two Shoes John Roberts is too nice to be crazy.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 16, 2005
  
• Judgment Day Are judges the new doctors?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 12, 2005
  
• Friendly Fire How John Roberts differs from his hero and mentor.
  Robert Gordon Aug. 11, 2005
  
• Ivory Powers Let's stop bashing "out-of-touch" judges.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 5, 2005
  
• The Souter Factor What makes tough conservative justices go soft?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 3, 2005
  
• A Big Drug Party Cheap cocaine on the way, thanks to a new Colombian law.
  Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Aug. 2, 2005
  
• Prosecuted, Not Persecuted Why a Muslim scholar probably crossed the First Amendment line.
  Rod Smolla July 27, 2005
  
• Answer the Question, Judge! Scalia explains why Roberts should speak freely at his confirmation hearings.
  Emily Bazelon July 26, 2005
  
• Thank You, Mr. President Last week, John Roberts wrote Bush a blank check.
  Emily Bazelon July 20, 2005
  
• The Gonzales Game Is he really the best Supreme Court pick liberals can hope for?
  Emily Bazelon July 12, 2005
  
• The Filtered Future China's bid to divide the Internet.
  Tim Wu July 11, 2005
  
• The Front-Runners on Roe What Bush's shortlist thinks about abortion.
  Emily Bazelon July 5, 2005
  
• Sandra Day O'Connor Slate's take on her career and decisions.
  July 1, 2005
  
• Please Don't Go, We Love You So Liberal nostalgia for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
  Emily Bazelon June 23, 2005
  
• The Murder of Emmett Till The 49-year-old story of the crime and how it came to be told.
  Randy Sparkman June 15, 2005
  
• Crazy for You How Michael Jackson got off.
  Emily Bazelon June 13, 2005
  
• Take God to Work Day Why the law shouldn't bend over backward for religious employees.
  Richard Thompson Ford June 13, 2005
  
• What Is Torture? An interactive primer on American interrogation.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 26, 2005
  
• The Courthouse Effect How to win a global-warming suit.
  Chris Mooney May 23, 2005
  
• Keep Out Border control Joe McCarthy would have loved.
  David Cole May 11, 2005
  
• But the Scouts, Your Honor Law schools wield a ruling on gay scoutmasters against the military.
  Richard Thompson Ford May 6, 2005
  
• Sanding Down Sander The debunker of affirmative action gets debunked.
  Emily Bazelon April 29, 2005
  
• When You Can't Beat 'Em … Since everyone wants to kill Moussaoui, he'd be nuts not to agree.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 19, 2005
  
• Strife-Cycles Judge-bashing is hardly new.
  Rodger Citron April 15, 2005
  
• Martyrs and Pestles Should pharmacists be allowed to refuse to dispense birth control?
  Dahlia Lithwick April 13, 2005
  
• Stupid-Syndrome Syndrome Yet more junk science to confound the legal system.
  David Feige April 6, 2005
  
• Needles and Threats More tough talk about pulverizing the judiciary.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 5, 2005
  
• Legal Combat Are enemies waging war in our courts?
  Phillip Carter April 4, 2005
  
• Judge Dread The judiciary may end up the big losers in the Schiavo mess.
  Bert Brandenburg March 29, 2005
  
• Barely Legal The hottest trend in file sharing.
  Dana Mulhauser March 28, 2005
  
• Till Death—or Tom DeLay—Do Us Part The "sanctity of marriage" is suddenly negotiable.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 23, 2005
  
• Activist Legislators The boundless overreaching behind Congress' new Schiavo bill.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 21, 2005
  
• Life of Privilege Why the law protects some private relationships and not others.
  Rod Smolla March 18, 2005
  
• World Weed The WTO—the stoner's new best friend.
  Tim Wu March 17, 2005
  
• We're on a Mission From God Is the Ten Commandments case turning Scalia into a devotee of natural law?
  Michael McGough March 9, 2005
  
• Patriot Games Spinning the invalidation of the government's spy laws.
  Robert Poe March 8, 2005
  
• Looking Out for No. 2 A modest proposal for single-use toilets.
  Ian Ayres March 7, 2005
  
• Death Row by the Numbers The Supreme Court invalidates capital punishment for juveniles.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 1, 2005
  
• Hate Slime The Orwellian new law that wasn't.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 24, 2005
  
• Bible Belt Upside the Head Why the Constitution tries so hard to protect the Buddhist kid.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 17, 2005
  
• Selling Indulgences The unmistakable parallel between Lynne Stewart and the president's torture lawyers.
  David Luban Feb. 14, 2005
  
• Radical Sheik An elegy for radical lawyering.
  David Feige Feb. 14, 2005
  
• Stupidity as a Firing Offense Why is Bill O'Reilly chairing our faculty meetings?
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 10, 2005
  
• The Plain Meaning of Torture? Literary deconstruction and the Bush administration's legal reasoning.
  Peter Brooks Feb. 9, 2005
  
• Crazy To Die Michael Ross' execution would be another pointless death.
  Martha Elliott Feb. 8, 2005
  
• Never Can Say Goodbye Can Michael Jackson stop being a freak to save his life?
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 4, 2005
  
• Supreme Chickens? The high court's Gitmo confusion comes home to roost.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 1, 2005
  
• I Like Mike Michael Chertoff isn't the Neanderthal he's been made out to be.
  Phillip Carter Jan. 31, 2005
  
• Thanks for the Repressed Memories Junk vs. science in the Paul Shanley trial.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 27, 2005
  
• Nutty for Nino Antonin Scalia for chief justice. Seriously.
  Nicholas Thompson Jan. 26, 2005
  
• Abuse of Trust The POW scandal you haven't yet heard about.
  John Norton Moore Jan. 21, 2005
  
• Pro Se Can You See? The absurd Catch-22 at the heart of Kowalski v. Tesmer.
  David Feige Jan. 13, 2005
  
• Stand by Your Memos Alberto Gonzales' refusal to defend even the defensible.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 7, 2005
  
• The New Blue Federalists The case for liberal federalism.
  Richard Thompson Ford Jan. 6, 2005